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MakingConnections
Focus on Assessment
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Workshop purpose
You are here to develop your knowledge and
understanding of the purpose and range of the embedded
assessment processes in the PrimaryConnections
Curriculum units.
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Workshop outline (90 minutes)
INTRO: Purpose, outline, outcomes(5 mins)
ENGAGE: Elicit ideas about the purposes of assessment(20 mins)
EXPLORE: Explore assessment through student and teacher perspectives(15 mins)
EXPLAIN: Explain the difference between types of assessment(25 mins) Explain the application of assessment processes in curriculum units
ELABORATE: Questioning techniques as an integral part of assessment(15 mins)
EVALUATE: Evaluate assessment behaviours (10 mins) Summarise, reflect and evaluate
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Outcomes
On completion of this module participants will understand and describe:
• the purposes of the three types of assessment embedded in PrimaryConnections
• the importance of student representations and questioning• the range of assessment processes appropriate to each of the 5Es phases
including student self-assessment• the assessment focuses and behaviours of teachers and students as they
progress through the 5Es phases• the use of the PrimaryConnections assessment rubrics
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ENGAGE
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Assessment ‘for’ learning
Gathering information about the gap between where the student is and needs to be.
Students learn best when they:• understand clearly what they are trying to learn and what is expected of them• are given feedback about the quality of their work• are given advice on how to make improvements• are fully involved in deciding what needs to be done next and who can help if needed.
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Assessment ‘of’ learning
Gathering and working with evidence to enable teachers and the wider assessment community to evaluate students’ progress.
Judgements about the extent and quality of student learning need to be:• based on sound criteria negotiated with and known to students• reliable and accurate.
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Assessment ‘as’ learning
Reflecting on evidence of learning and the processes of learning.
Reflecting on the learning process helps students focus on:• what they have learned• how they have learned• what processes help them to learn.
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EXPLORE
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Complete a Y chart from either a teacher orstudent perspective
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EXPLAIN
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The PrimaryConnections 5Es teaching and learning model uses ongoing and embedded assessment to enhance teaching and learning.
Ongoing and embedded assessment
PHASE FOCUS
ENGAGEEngage students and elicit prior knowledgeDiagnostic assessment
EXPLOREProvide hands-on experience of the phenomenonFormative assessment
EXPLAIN
Develop scientific explanations for observations and represent developing conceptual understandingConsider current scientific explanationsFormative assessment
ELABORATEExtend understanding to a new context or make connections to additional concepts through a student-planned investigationSummative assessment of the Science Inquiry Skills
EVALUATEStudents re-represent their understanding and reflect on their learning journey and teachers collect evidence about the achievement of outcomesSummative assessment of the Science Understanding
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Types of assessment
Diagnostic
Formative
Summative
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ELABORATE
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‘More effort has to be spent in framing questions that are worth asking: that is, questions which explore issues that are critical to the development of children’s understanding.’
Questioning
Black, P. et al. (2003). Assessment for learning. UK, Open University Press.
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Questioning and the 5Es model
ENGAGE: Broad questions that encourage students to discuss their ideas and
experiences
EXPLORE: Questions that encourage students to discuss their ideas and to
express common experiences
EXPLAIN: Focused questions that reinforce the explanations of the concepts
ELABORATE: Questions that help students understand the concept in a new
situation; Questions about claims, evidence and reasoning from science
investigations
EVALUATE: Questions that assess students’ understanding.
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Effective questioning
View Part Eight of Questioning Minds DVD
• What are broad questions?• What are narrow questions?• What is the purpose of wait time?
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Website assessment resources
www.science.primaryconnections.org.au
• Register as a member to access rubrics• Website resources are available• Assessment rubrics are fully aligned to the Science Inquiry
Skills of the Australian Curriculum:Science• Work samples provide guidance for assessing students’
work
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EVALUATE
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Assessment card sort
Explain to each other the appropriate behaviours for each of the assessment types
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In summary
• includes assessment practices for, of and as learning
• uses diagnostic, formative and summative assessment processes embedded in the PrimaryConnections 5Es teaching and learning model
• integrates appropriate questioning techniques in assessment processes
• embeds assessment processes in exemplary curriculum units.
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